Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
MARTIALVirtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
More Martial Quotes
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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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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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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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 fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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