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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Martial

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

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
MARTIAL

Form God Gold Himself
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Life Live Past
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

Enough Fate Fortune
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIAL

Original Position Yourself
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
MARTIAL

Enough Life Man Quick
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIAL

Goodness Man Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIAL

Fools Future Past Wisdom
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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