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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

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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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

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