You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIALJoys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
More Martial Quotes
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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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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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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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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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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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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