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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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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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
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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