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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
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

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

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