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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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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
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
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
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
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
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste

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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