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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.

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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
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
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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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
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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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
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

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