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To have nothing is not poverty.

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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
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
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness

To have nothing is not poverty.

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