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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands 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
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
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
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
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
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
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
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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

Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

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