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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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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
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
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present

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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