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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

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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
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
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
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
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
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
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
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

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