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Hidden evils are most dreaded.

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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
MARTIAL

Inspirational Life Live
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
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
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
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
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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value

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