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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

Martial

To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
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
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
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
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

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