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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.

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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear 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
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner

To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.

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