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

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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
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference 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
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past

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