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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

Martial

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
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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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
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
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.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
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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