A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIALSome good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
More Martial Quotes
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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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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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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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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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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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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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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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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