To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIALI believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
More Martial Quotes
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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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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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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