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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.

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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

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

Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
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
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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIAL

Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIAL

Life Naughty Poem Purity
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
From no place can you exclude the fates.
MARTIAL

Fate Place Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
MARTIAL

Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
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.
MARTIAL

Borrow Himself Lose Preference
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 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
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please

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