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

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
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
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
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
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True

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