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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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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
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
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
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
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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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