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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Martial

What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

Enough Fate Fortune
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
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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
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
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time

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