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

Martial

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

Fly Happiness Wings
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
MARTIAL

Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIAL

One Liner Poverty
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
MARTIAL

Enemy Food Greatness
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARTIAL

Fame Life Man Name Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
MARTIAL

Art Myself Yourself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIAL

Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
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
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIAL

Man Virtue World
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIAL

Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIAL

Home One Liner
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
MARTIAL

Animal Bird Wings
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIAL

Enough Fortune Unfair
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIAL

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIAL

Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
MARTIAL

Alive Health Life
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIAL

Man Please Satisfaction
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
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.
MARTIAL

Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man

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

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