That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
MARTIALWish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
More Martial Quotes
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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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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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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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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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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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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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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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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