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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIAL

Bad Goodness
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
MARTIAL

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

Color Myself Natural
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
MARTIAL

Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIAL

Man Virtue World
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIAL

Face Fair Happiness Smile
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIAL

Man Please Satisfaction
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIAL

Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIAL

Alcohol Misery Wine
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIAL

Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIAL

Beginning Behavior Novice
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIAL

Man Walk

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