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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIAL

Himself Leaving Mourn
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIAL

Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

Man Walk
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
MARTIAL

Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Former Life Live
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
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
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
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
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
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
MARTIAL

Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIAL

Blessing Health Life

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