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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

Martial

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
MARTIAL

Fly Joy Life Live
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIAL

Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
MARTIAL

Bad Goodness
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
MARTIAL

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

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIAL

One Liner Poverty
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
MARTIAL

Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIAL

Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

Man Walk
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIAL

Run Yourself
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself

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