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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

Martial

See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIAL

Laughter Time
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
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
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man

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