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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

Martial

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
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty 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
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality

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