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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom

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