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• Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.

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  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 125-27, Epigrams, I. 17. 1, 1922.

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• You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

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  Thinking, Pay, Praise

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.384

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• Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

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  Laughing, Ill

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• There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

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  Busybodies

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• I do not hate the man, but his vices.

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  Hate, Men, Hatred

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• 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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  Winter, Doors, Giving

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• Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.

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  Fascinating

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• I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

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  Granted, Borrowing, Refuse

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.580

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• From no place can you exclude the fates.
  [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]

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  Fate

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• A novice always behaves with propriety.

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  Novices, Propriety, Behave

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• Those they praise, but they read the others.

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  Praise

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
  [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

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  Adversity, Bravery, Easy

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• Whoever is not too wise is wise.
  [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]

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  Wise, Wisdom, Plus

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• Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.

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  Feathers

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• You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

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  Life, Dying, Puff

  Martial, John Patrick Sullivan (1987). “Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands”, p.301, Univ of California Press

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• While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.

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  Tree, Amber, Shade

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.268

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• Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

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  Lying, Mean, Two

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.55

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• What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

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  Men, Please, Wretched

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• Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.

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  Live For Today, Too Late, Tomorrow

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• If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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  Respect, Lions, Beard

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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  Identity, Lasts, Resolve

  "Epigrams".

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• 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?

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  Husband, Chloe, Shameless

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.400

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• While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

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  Sarcastic, Home, Sleep

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• 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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  Life, Past, Men

  "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), X. 23. 7 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

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  Waste, Trifles, Folly

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