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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
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
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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 living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious

To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

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