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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
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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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

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