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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.

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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
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
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow

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