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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing

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