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

Martial

You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
MARTIAL

Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

Fly Happiness Wings
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIAL

Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
MARTIAL

Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
MARTIAL

Enough Life Man Quick
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
MARTIAL

Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
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
Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIAL

One Liner Person Vice
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
Birds of a feather will flock together.
MARTIAL

Bird Friendship Togetherness
For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIAL

Blessing Health Life
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
MARTIAL

Elegant Hire Passion
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
MARTIAL

Day Life Present
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
MARTIAL

Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself

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

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