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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
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
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
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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Art Myself Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide

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