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

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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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL

Addiction Appearance Cruelty 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
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself

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

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