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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place 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
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
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
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

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

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