Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
MARTIAL

Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MARTIAL

Friendship Master Service Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIAL

Burden Himself Weigh
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIAL

Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIAL

Goodness Man Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL

Death Glory Late
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
MARTIAL

Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
MARTIAL

One Liner Wisdom
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIAL

Solution Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIAL

One Liner Praise Reading
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIAL

Man Please Satisfaction
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself

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