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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point

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