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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
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
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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