Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIALTomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
More Martial Quotes
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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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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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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