Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
MARTIALWhile 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.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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