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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.

Martial

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIAL

Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIAL

Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

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

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
MARTIAL

One Liner Wisdom
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

Leadership Myself Wife
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.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIAL

Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIAL

Himself Leaving Mourn
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MARTIAL

Ash Glory Late

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.

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