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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

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