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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIAL

Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIAL

Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MARTIAL

Ash Glory Late
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
MARTIAL

Day Ourselves Pass Score
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
MARTIAL

One Liner Wisdom
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
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
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIAL

Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
MARTIAL

Swan Tongue
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
MARTIAL

Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

God Live Religious

There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

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