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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

Martial

Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIAL

Original Position Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Former Life Live
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
MARTIAL

Bad Goodness
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

Run Yourself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIAL

Honey Similar
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIAL

Laughter Time
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
MARTIAL

Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

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