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

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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
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing 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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life

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

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