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

Martial

A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
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
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIAL

Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
MARTIAL

Health Life Live One Liner
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
MARTIAL

Fascination One Liner Point
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIAL

Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Himself Life True
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
MARTIAL

Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
MARTIAL

Bad Goodness
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIAL

Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
MARTIAL

Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
MARTIAL

Expression Inscription Place Shame

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

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