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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
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
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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