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

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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
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself

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

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