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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

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