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

Martial

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear 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.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste

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