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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
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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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
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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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
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
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
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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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
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
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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