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

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Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
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
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
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend

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

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