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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

Martial

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
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.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
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
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
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 are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife

You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

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