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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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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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 be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself

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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