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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?

Martial

I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIAL

Blessing Health Life
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIAL

Herself Woman
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIAL

Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIAL

Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIAL

Goodness Man Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIAL

Deep Love One Liner
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIAL

Man Please 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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