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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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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife 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
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden

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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