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

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
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
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
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself

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