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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

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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
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

Enough Fate Fortune
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIAL

Goodness Man Yourself
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
MARTIAL

Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
MARTIAL

Fascination One Liner Point
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

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

Form God Gold Himself
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
MARTIAL

Greatness Present Return
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIAL

Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself

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