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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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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
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
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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