While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
MARTIALI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
More Martial Quotes
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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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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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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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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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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