Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIALYou’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
More Martial Quotes
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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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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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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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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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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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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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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