A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIALFor life is only life when blessed with health.
More Martial Quotes
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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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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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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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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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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