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Life is not living, but living in health.

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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
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
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings

Life is not living, but living in health.

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