There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIALHe who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
More Martial Quotes
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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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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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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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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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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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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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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