My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIALIf 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.
More Martial Quotes
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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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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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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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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