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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

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

Death Shame Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
MARTIAL

Fate Place Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIAL

Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIAL

Man Virtue World
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
MARTIAL

Fly Joy Life Live
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man
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
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIAL

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
MARTIAL

Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

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