Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIALI would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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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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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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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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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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