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Life is not living, but living in health.

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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself

Life is not living, but living in health.

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