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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.

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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself

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