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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

Martial

You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIAL

Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
MARTIAL

Rich Wealth
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
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
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
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIAL

Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
MARTIAL

Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

Fly Happiness Wings
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIAL

Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
MARTIAL

Enough Life Man Quick
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIAL

Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
MARTIAL

Alive Health Life
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory

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