To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIALBe cheerful, if you are wise.
More Martial Quotes
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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