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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
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
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World

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