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

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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself

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

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