If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIALMake it a point not to be over-fascinating.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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