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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

Martial

A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember 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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine

Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

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