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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.

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To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.

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