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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.

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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
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

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