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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
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
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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