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.
MARTIALOur days pass by, and are scored against us.
More Martial Quotes
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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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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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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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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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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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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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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 have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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