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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

Martial

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Himself Life True
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.
MARTIAL

Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIAL

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

Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
MARTIAL

Death Live Poet Praise Worth
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIAL

Believe Man Myself Please
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
MARTIAL

Form God Gold Himself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIAL

Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIAL

Man Please Satisfaction
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL

Death Glory Late
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Day Fear Yourself
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
MARTIAL

Expression Inscription Place Shame
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
Gifts are like hooks.
MARTIAL

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

Color Myself Natural
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

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