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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.

Martial

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
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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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
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 is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
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
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.

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