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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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Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIAL

One Liner Person Vice
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIAL

Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

Fly Happiness Wings
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
MARTIAL

Body Old Revolution
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear 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 novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
MARTIAL

Expression Inscription Place Shame
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARTIAL

Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIAL

Honey Similar
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIAL

Man Virtue World
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

Leadership Myself Wife
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

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

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