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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial

I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIAL

Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIAL

Man Please Satisfaction
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MARTIAL

Ash Glory Late
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIAL

Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

Fly Happiness Wings
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
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
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
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
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
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL

Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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