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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
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
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

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