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To have nothing is not poverty.

Martial

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
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
Life is not living, but living in health.
MARTIAL

Health Life Live One Liner
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
MARTIAL

Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
MARTIAL

Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIAL

Day Death Fear Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIAL

Solution Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

Enough Fate Fortune
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIAL

Face Fair Happiness Smile
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

To have nothing is not poverty.

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