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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

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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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
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
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue

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