Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIALI 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.
More Martial Quotes
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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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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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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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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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