Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

Martial
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  1. You do not publish your own verses Laelius you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine or else publish your own.

  2. 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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  5. Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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