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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

Martial

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
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
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
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
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
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
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness

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