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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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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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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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed if you're a good man, you're a wonder!
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In adversity it is easy to despise life he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
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I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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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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Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
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For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
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If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]
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It is easy in adversity to despise death he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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