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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.

Martial

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MARTIAL

Friendship Master Service Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIAL

Life Naughty Poem Purity
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
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?
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Book Himself Writing
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
MARTIAL

Content Language Need
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow

A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.

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