Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

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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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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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Bound
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Language Production
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy Suspect
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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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Noble
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Strive
Reality is always the foe of famous names.

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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Famous Name
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Delight Easy
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.

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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Fortune Honor Oneself
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Fortune
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Mourn
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Mortal

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