Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIALWhy do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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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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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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