The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIALIt is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
More Martial Quotes
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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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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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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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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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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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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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