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Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial /ˈmɑːrʃəl/) (March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets.

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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

Consists, Enjoy, Existing, Health, Life, Merely

He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.

Giving, Half, Lend, Lose, Wish, Wishes

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

Attendants, Banquets, Crowds, Eloquent, Loudly

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

Amber, Bees, Enclosed, Preserved, Shining

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

Funny, Leave, Money, Mourn, Nothing, Want

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Aviation, Flight, Fly, Joy, Pluck, Thy

Birdes of a feather will flocke togither.

Birdes, Feather, Feathers, Flocke, Togither

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Man, Men, Novice, Novices, Virtuous

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

Cook, Cooks, Double, Masters, Sense, Should

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

Content, Crier, Epigrams, Needs, Tongue

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.

Away, Face, Home, Sarcastic, Sleep, Teeth

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

Imagination, Feelings, Intuition, Eloquent, Force

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

Enlarges, Existence, Good Man, Goodness, Men, Term

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

Addicted, Bad, Causes, Cook, Dinner, Too Much

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

Ashes, Glory, Nought, Too Late

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

Ask, Girl, Giving, Nice

Those they praise, but they read the others.

Praise, Read

Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

Carrotty, Kiss, Kissing, Nature, Philaenis, Sin

A vagrant is everywhere at home.

Home, Journey, Hiking, Everywhere, Vagrant

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

Adversity, Despise, Fortitude, Real

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