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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term

You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

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