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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.

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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
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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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
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
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself

It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.

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