I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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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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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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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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