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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.

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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
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
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear 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
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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
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
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

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