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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.

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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late

Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.

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