Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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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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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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