For life is only life when blessed with health.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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