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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

Martial

Birds of a feather will flock together.
MARTIAL

Bird Friendship Togetherness
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
MARTIAL

Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

Fly Happiness Wings
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
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
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
MARTIAL

Day Life Present
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
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MARTIAL

Friendship Master Service Yourself
One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIAL

Artist Genius Oneself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
MARTIAL

Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
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?
MARTIAL

Expression Inscription Place Shame
Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIAL

Deep Love One Liner
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIAL

Enjoyment Life Live Past

Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

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