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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing 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
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please

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