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

Martial

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARTIAL

Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Birds of a feather will flock together.
MARTIAL

Bird Friendship Togetherness
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIAL

Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
MARTIAL

Alive Health Life
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

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

Animal Bird Wings
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIAL

Herself Woman
Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIAL

One Liner Person Vice
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
MARTIAL

Elegant Hire Passion
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIAL

Face Fair Happiness Smile
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIAL

Day Death Fear Yourself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIAL

Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth

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

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