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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

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To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner

To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

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