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Hidden evils are most dreaded.

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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin 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

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