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I do not hate the man, but his vices.

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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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
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
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
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
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

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