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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.

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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
MARTIAL

Enough Life Man Quick
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.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
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
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Be merry if you are wise.
MARTIAL

One Liner Wisdom
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst

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