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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
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
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

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