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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
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
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous 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
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
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
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
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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