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I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIAL

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
MARTIAL

Evil Fear Hide
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.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIAL

Goodness Man Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
MARTIAL

Swan Tongue
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
MARTIAL

Day Ourselves Pass Score
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
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

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