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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
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
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.

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