It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIALGenuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
More Martial Quotes
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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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 present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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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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