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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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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
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
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

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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