He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIAL

Home One Liner
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
MARTIAL

Fascination One Liner Point
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
MARTIAL

Bad Goodness
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
MARTIAL

Day Life Present
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIAL

Hate Man Mistake
From no place can you exclude the fates.
MARTIAL

Fate Place Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
MARTIAL

Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
MARTIAL

Day Goodness Man Pain
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
MARTIAL

Swan Tongue

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