Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
MARTIALHe who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
More Martial Quotes
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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