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.
MARTIALWhoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
More Martial Quotes
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Wine and women bring misery.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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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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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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