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

Martial

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
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 swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural

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