It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIALYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
More Martial Quotes
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Be merry if you are wise.
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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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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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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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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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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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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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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 are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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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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