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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
MARTIAL

Love Myself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

Fly Happiness Wings
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Life is not living, but living in health.
MARTIAL

Health Life Live One Liner
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIAL

Laughter Time
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIAL

Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIAL

Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIAL

One Liner Praise Reading
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

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