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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
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
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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