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Wine and women bring misery.

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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIAL

Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIAL

Burden Himself Weigh
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIAL

Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

Leadership Myself Wife
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

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

Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
MARTIAL

Swan Tongue
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
MARTIAL

Fly Joy Life Live
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
MARTIAL

Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself

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