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

Martial

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
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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