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12.13 by Martial
(Translated from Latin by David Macey)

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Among the rich, anger’s no rarity:
hatred comes cheaper than charity.

 

 

Genus, Aucte, lucri divites habent iram:
odisse quam donare vilius constat.

 

 

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