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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIAL

Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time

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