Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
MARTIALWho gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
More Martial Quotes
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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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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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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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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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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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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