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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.

Martial

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
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
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
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice

It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.

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