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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
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
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
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
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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