I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIALYou should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
More Martial Quotes
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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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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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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