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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
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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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time

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