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

Martial

You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

Run Yourself
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Life Live Past
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL

Better Myself Name
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
MARTIAL

Fate Place Yourself
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
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
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIAL

Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIAL

Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
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.
MARTIAL

Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIAL

Goodness Man Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
MARTIAL

Enough Fate Fortune

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

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