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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

Martial

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

Envy Jealous Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIAL

One Liner Praise Reading
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL

Death Glory Late
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIAL

Life Naughty Poem Purity
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIAL

Honey Similar
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MARTIAL

Friendship Master Service Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIAL

Bad Goodness
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

Run Yourself
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIAL

Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
MARTIAL

Leather Remember Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIAL

Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

God Live Religious
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIAL

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Existence Health Life

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

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