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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Martial

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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
MARTIAL

Animal Bird Wings
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
MARTIAL

Rich Wealth
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
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
Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIAL

Deep Love One Liner
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

Enough Fate Fortune
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIAL

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Content Preference Yourself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
MARTIAL

Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIAL

One Liner Poverty
Laugh, if thou art wise.
MARTIAL

Laughter One Liner Wisdom
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
MARTIAL

Fascination One Liner Point
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
MARTIAL

Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself

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