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

Martial

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
MARTIAL

Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL

Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
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.
MARTIAL

Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
MARTIAL

Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIAL

Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
MARTIAL

Fools Labour Wasted
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIAL

Life Naughty Poem Purity
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
MARTIAL

Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIAL

Fools Future Past Wisdom
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

Man Walk
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
MARTIAL

One Liner Wisdom
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
MARTIAL

Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Birds of a feather will flock together.
MARTIAL

Bird Friendship Togetherness

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