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

Martial

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIAL

Laughter Time
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful

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

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