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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.

Martial

See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIAL

Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIAL

Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Former Life Live
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIAL

Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth

You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.

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