What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIALA cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
More Martial Quotes
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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I 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.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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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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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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