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Whoever is not too wise is wise.

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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
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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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction

Whoever is not too wise is wise.

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