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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Love Ready Sweet
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
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Perfect Perfect Happiness
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice Funny Simple Life
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
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Destiny End Try
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Brain Hard Work Nail
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
Punishment follows close on crime.
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Crime Follow Punishment
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
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Dark Death Needs
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
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Men Poetry Rate
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
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Envy Punishment Tyrant
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
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Fault Imperfection Poetry
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
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Last Poverty Wing
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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Hate Sin Virtue

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