In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIALTis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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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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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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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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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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