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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.

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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
MARTIAL

Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL

Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

Man Walk
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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIAL

Solution Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
MARTIAL

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

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIAL

Life Naughty Poem Purity
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIAL

Honey Similar
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
MARTIAL

Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIAL

Deep Love One Liner
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
MARTIAL

Swan Tongue

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