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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!

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Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIAL

Deep Love One Liner
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIAL

Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Life Live Past
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
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
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
MARTIAL

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

Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

Man Walk
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live

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!

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