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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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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 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
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
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
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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