I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIALSpare the person but lash the vice.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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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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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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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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