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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!

Martial

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
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

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!

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