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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.

Martial

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
Gifts are like hooks.
MARTIAL

Gift One Liner
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 weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIAL

Burden Himself Weigh
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIAL

Himself Leaving Mourn
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIAL

Face Fair Happiness Smile
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIAL

Laughter Time
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
MARTIAL

Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
MARTIAL

Flaw Greatness Hide
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL

Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself

A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.

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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.

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