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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIAL

Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
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
From no place can you exclude the fates.
MARTIAL

Fate Place Yourself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIAL

Honey Similar
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
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIAL

Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
MARTIAL

Art Myself Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIAL

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

Death Fame Hurry Myself
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
MARTIAL

Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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