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

Martial

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
MARTIAL

Evil Fear Hide
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

Enough Fate Fortune
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MARTIAL

Ash Glory Late
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
MARTIAL

Form God Gold Himself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
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!
MARTIAL

Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice

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

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