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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

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

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear 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
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIAL

Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

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

Death Glory Late
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIAL

Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
MARTIAL

Enemy Food Greatness
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIAL

Laughter Time
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIAL

Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIAL

Honey Similar

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