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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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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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Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late live today. Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say Today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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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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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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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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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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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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All your female friends are either old or ugly nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.
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