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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
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
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
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
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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