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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.

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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.

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