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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!

Martial

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIAL

Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
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
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!

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