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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.

Martial

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
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
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
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
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
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine

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