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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

Martial

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
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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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

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