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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Life Live Past
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
MARTIAL

Borrow Himself Lose Preference
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
MARTIAL

Body Old Revolution
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL

Death Glory Late
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIAL

Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
MARTIAL

Enemy Food Greatness
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIAL

Enough Fortune Unfair
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
MARTIAL

Art Myself Yourself
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
MARTIAL

Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
MARTIAL

Evil Fear Hide
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
MARTIAL

Greatness Present Return

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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