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Martial

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

Run Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIAL

Enough Fortune Unfair
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
MARTIAL

Believe Deserve Myself World
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIAL

Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL

Death Glory Late
Birds of a feather will flock together.
MARTIAL

Bird Friendship Togetherness
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
Laugh, if thou art wise.
MARTIAL

Laughter One Liner Wisdom
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
MARTIAL

Animal Bird Wings
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
MARTIAL

Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine

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