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.
MARTIALHe truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
More Martial Quotes
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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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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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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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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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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