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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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
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
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

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