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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

Martial

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
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIAL

Blessing Health Life
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
MARTIAL

Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIAL

One Liner Praise Reading
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
MARTIAL

Hide One Liner Sorrow True
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIAL

Life Naughty Poem Purity
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
MARTIAL

Animal Bird Wings
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIAL

Fools Future Past Wisdom
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIAL

Man Virtue World
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.
MARTIAL

Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIAL

Home One Liner
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

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