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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
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
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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