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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

God Live Religious
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIAL

Day Death Fear Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
MARTIAL

Enough Life Man Quick
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
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
MARTIAL

Enemy Food Greatness
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
MARTIAL

Form God Gold Himself
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Life Live Past
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL

Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Former Life Live
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIAL

Blessing Health Life
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Existence Health Life
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
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
MARTIAL

Fools Labour Wasted

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