For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIALSome things are good, some middling, more bad.
More Martial Quotes
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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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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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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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