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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life

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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