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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.

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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIAL

Man Virtue World
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIAL

Burden Himself Weigh
For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIAL

Blessing Health Life
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
MARTIAL

Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
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
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARTIAL

Fame Life Man Name Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIAL

Himself Leaving Mourn
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice

You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.

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