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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
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
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
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man

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