You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
MARTIALGlory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
More Martial Quotes
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I know all that better than my own name.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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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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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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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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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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