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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness

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