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A novice always behaves with propriety.

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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend

A novice always behaves with propriety.

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