Life is not living, but living in health.
MARTIALGivers of great dinners know few enemies.
More Martial Quotes
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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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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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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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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To have nothing is not poverty.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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