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

Martial

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom 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.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife

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

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