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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.

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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame 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
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
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
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
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
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

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