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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Martial

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise 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
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory

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