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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]
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In adversity it is easy to despise life he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
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Wine and women bring misery.
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I'm what I seem not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.
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