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

Martial

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
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.
MARTIAL

Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Existence Health Life
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIAL

Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Life Live Past
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
MARTIAL

Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
MARTIAL

Fate Place Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
MARTIAL

Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
MARTIAL

Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MARTIAL

Alive Life One Liner
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
MARTIAL

Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
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
Gifts are like hooks.
MARTIAL

Gift One Liner
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
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
MARTIAL

Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIAL

Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

Enough Fate Fortune
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
MARTIAL

Form God Gold Himself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue

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

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