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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

Martial

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
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name 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
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
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
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

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