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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
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
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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