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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

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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
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden

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