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

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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
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
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking

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