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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?

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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
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
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
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 fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
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
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself

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