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

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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
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
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
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
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory

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

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