To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIALIt is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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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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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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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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