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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

Martial

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL

Death Glory Late
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
MARTIAL

Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
MARTIAL

Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
MARTIAL

Book Himself Writing
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
MARTIAL

Greatness Present Return
For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIAL

Blessing Health Life
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIAL

Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIAL

Himself Leaving Mourn
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIAL

Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
MARTIAL

Art Myself Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIAL

Enough Fortune Unfair
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Content Preference Yourself
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
MARTIAL

Lake Luxury Myself Water

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