Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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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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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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