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Life is not living, but living in health.

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
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
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself

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