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

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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
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’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
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

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

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