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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
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
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
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

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