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

Martial

Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom 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
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush

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