A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIALIf 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.
More Martial Quotes
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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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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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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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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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