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

Martial

Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
MARTIAL

Swan Tongue
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIAL

Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
You 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!
MARTIAL

Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
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?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious

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