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

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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
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
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself

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

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