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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
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
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
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
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings

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