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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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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
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
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past

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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