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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.

Martial

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 admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
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 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
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves

Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.

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