Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIALIf my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
More Martial Quotes
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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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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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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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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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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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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