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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
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
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

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