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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

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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
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
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
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
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
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
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
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water

What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

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