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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

Run Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
MARTIAL

Love Myself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
MARTIAL

Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

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