If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIALTo the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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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 have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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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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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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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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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Be cheerful, 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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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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