A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIALA fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIALA man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIALFortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIALYou are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIALYou should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIALFortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIALVirtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIALHe truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
MARTIALRed-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIALTomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
MARTIALThe present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
MARTIALI know all that better than my own name.
MARTIALThe flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
MARTIALI wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIALIf fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIALTis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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