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

Martial

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL

Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MARTIAL

Friendship Master Service Yourself
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
MARTIAL

Elegant Hire Passion
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
MARTIAL

Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIAL

Man Please Satisfaction
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
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
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.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
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

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