This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIALIt is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
More Martial Quotes
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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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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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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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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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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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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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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