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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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
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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Content Preference Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run 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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune

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