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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
MARTIAL

Friendship Short Writing Yourself
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
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIAL

Animal Glory
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIAL

Death Glory Late
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIAL

Division Short Work
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIAL

Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
MARTIAL

Bad Goodness
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself

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