There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIALThe face that cannot smile is never fair.
More Martial Quotes
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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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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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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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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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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