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

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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness

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

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