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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.

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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
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
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return

If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.

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