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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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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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
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
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point

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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