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

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

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIAL

Page Stand Thief Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIAL

Burden Himself Weigh
Birds of a feather will flock together.
MARTIAL

Bird Friendship Togetherness
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIAL

Flaw Imagination World Worst
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

Envy Jealous Yourself
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIAL

Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
MARTIAL

Elegant Hire Passion
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember 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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIAL

Deep Existence Live Man

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

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