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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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
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
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late

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