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

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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
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself

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