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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIAL

Home One Liner
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIAL

Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
MARTIAL

Day Life Present
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term

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