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Quotes from Epigrams — Martial

102–104

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You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.

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Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.

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'Tis degrading to undertake difficult trifles; and foolish is the labour spent on puerilities.

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

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The bee enclosed and through the amber shown
Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

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He who refuses nothing...will soon have nothing to refuse.

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

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Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised.
A fault concealed is presumed to be great.

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Glory paid to ashes comes too late.

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Selius affirms, in heav'n no gods there are:
And while he thrives, and they their thunder spare,
His daring tenet to the world seems fair. Anon. 1695.

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You invite no man to dinner, Cotta, but your bath-companion; the baths alone provide you with a guest. I was wondering why you had never asked me; now I understand that when naked I displeased you.

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Barbarian hordes en masse you fuck,
Odd types into your bed you tuck,
You take on blacks and Asian forces,
And Jews, and soldiers, and their horses.
Yet you, voracious Roman chick,
Have never known a Roman dick.

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