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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
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’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
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
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow

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