You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIALYou ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
More Martial Quotes
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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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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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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