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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

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Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
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
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
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
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
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

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

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