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.
MARTIALRed-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
More Martial Quotes
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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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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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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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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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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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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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 not hated the man, but his faults.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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