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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Martial

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
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
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
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
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
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
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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

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