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From no place can you exclude the fates.

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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
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
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction

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