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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.

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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
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
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember 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
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
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
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
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself

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