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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.

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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
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
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
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
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

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