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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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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
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
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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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy

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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