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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

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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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
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
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
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
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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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
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
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

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