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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
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
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please

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