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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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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live

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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