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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.

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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
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
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
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 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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion

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