You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIALYou’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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