Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
MARTIALYou’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
More Martial Quotes
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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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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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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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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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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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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