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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

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Life, Past, Two
Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

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Past, Looks, Able

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

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Past, Able, Life Is
"Epigrams". Book X, 23. As translated in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett (1919), c. 80 - 104 AD.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

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Life, Past, Men
"Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), X. 23. 7 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

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Past, Former Life, Enjoy

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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Art, Past, Being Thankful

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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Past, Joy, Taste

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