Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIALFor life is only life when blessed with health.
More Martial Quotes
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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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.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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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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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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