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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
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
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right 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
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
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
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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