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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.

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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
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
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
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.

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