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

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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIAL

Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Gifts are like hooks.
MARTIAL

Gift One Liner
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIAL

Burden Himself Weigh
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIAL

Herself Woman
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
MARTIAL

Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIAL

Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself

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

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