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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

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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
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
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 puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
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
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term

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