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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
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
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

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