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

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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
MARTIAL

Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
MARTIAL

Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
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
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

Run Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIAL

Life Naughty Poem Purity
For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIAL

Blessing Health Life
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
MARTIAL

Book Himself Writing
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
MARTIAL

Day Life Present
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Former Life Live
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing 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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man

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

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