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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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 as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
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
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
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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Swan Tongue

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

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