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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution 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 thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Be merry if you are wise.
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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
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom

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