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Whoever is not too wise is wise.

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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
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
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself

Whoever is not too wise is wise.

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