A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIALA fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
More Martial Quotes
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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While 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.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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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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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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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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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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