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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIAL

Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Former Life Live
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MARTIAL

Alive Life One Liner
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
MARTIAL

Fascination One Liner Point
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
MARTIAL

Inspirational Life Live
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Himself Life True
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
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself

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