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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

Martial

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
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
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
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
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

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