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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
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
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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