It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
MARTIALTomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
More Martial Quotes
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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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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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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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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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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