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

Martial

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
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIAL

Himself Leaving Mourn
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
MARTIAL

Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Himself Life True
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
MARTIAL

Expression Inscription Place Shame
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIAL

Face Fair Happiness Smile
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
MARTIAL

Day Life Present
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
MARTIAL

Book Himself Writing
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Life Live Past
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
MARTIAL

Greatness Present Return

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

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