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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
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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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice

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