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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

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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 should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase

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