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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
MARTIAL

Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIAL

One Liner Poverty
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIAL

Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIAL

Deep Love One Liner
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIAL

Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise 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.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIAL

Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIAL

Bad Goodness
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
MARTIAL

Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
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
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
MARTIAL

Day Goodness Man Pain

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

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