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Wine and women bring misery.

Martial

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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
MARTIAL

Content Language Need
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?
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Book Himself Writing
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live

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