The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
MARTIALHe who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
More Martial Quotes
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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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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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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