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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
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
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
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
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
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
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness

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