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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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