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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

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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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

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