To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIALYou 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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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