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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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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
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
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
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

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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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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