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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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
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
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves

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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