Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIALYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
More Martial Quotes
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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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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