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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?

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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
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

This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?

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