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Be merry if you are wise.

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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear 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 face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
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
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
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
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
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud

Be merry if you are wise.

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