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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.

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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
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
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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.

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