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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIAL

Finding Quick Sudden
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Content Preference Yourself
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
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
MARTIAL

Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
MARTIAL

Content Language Need
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIAL

Honey Similar
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
MARTIAL

Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIAL

One Liner Praise Reading
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
MARTIAL

Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
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
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Himself Life True
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh

Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.

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