To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIALIt is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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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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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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