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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
MARTIAL

Day Goodness Man Pain
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
MARTIAL

Day Ourselves Pass Score
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIAL

Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIAL

Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
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.
MARTIAL

Believe Deserve Myself World
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

Leadership Myself Wife
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
MARTIAL

Health Life Live One Liner
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIAL

Day Death Fear Yourself

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

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