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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

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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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory

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