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• The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

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  Sweet, Swans, Singers

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

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  Eating, Fats, Grows

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

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• He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

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  Book, Writing, Wish

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.362

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• It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

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  Real, Adversity, Fortitude

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• Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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  Art, Past, Being Thankful

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

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  Eating, Dishes, Stills

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.598

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• You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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  Hands, Crystals, Faults

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• Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

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  Ashes, Too Late, Glory

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• One genius has made many clever artists.

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  Clever, Artist, Genius

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• He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

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  Life, Thinking, Long

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.293

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• It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.

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  Life, Wise, Believe

  "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), I. 16. 11 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

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  Pain, Joy, Fewer

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