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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Deny Forbidden Strive
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
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Inspirational Rose Tender Thorn
Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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Complain Husband Love
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Live Love She Sleep Woman
He who has lived in obscurity has lived well.
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Live Onscurity
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Endurance Prove Sorrow
Every lover is a soldier.
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Lover One Liner Soldier
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Love One Liner Positive Want
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Gift Love Poet Poor Words
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Anger Beast Fair Peace
Little things please little minds.
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Little Mind One Liner
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Prince Punishment Quick Reward
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Anxiety Pleasure Pure
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Health Medicine Pain Snatch
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Death Delicate Ideas Kill Man Sneer Yawn

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