Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIALBe cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIALFor life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIALGenuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIALBe content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MARTIALGivers of great dinners know few enemies.
MARTIALYou’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
MARTIALRemember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
MARTIALYou complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIALIf fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIALYour page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIALHe who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIALIf 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.
MARTIALYou 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!
MARTIALYou may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIALWish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIALJoys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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