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Be merry if you are wise.

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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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
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
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
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
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
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune

Be merry if you are wise.

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