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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
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
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
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase

Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

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