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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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Disgraceful 'tis to treat small things as difficult;
'Tis silly to waste time on foolish trifles.

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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.

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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend.

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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late; live today.

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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

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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?

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Martial

Martial

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Born: March, 40

Died: 104 (aged 63)

Bio: Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet from Hispania 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.

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