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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

Martial

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
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
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIAL

God Live Religious
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIAL

Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
MARTIAL

Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
MARTIAL

Body Old Revolution
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MARTIAL

Ash Glory Late

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

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