Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MARTIALA vagrant is everywhere at home.
More Martial Quotes
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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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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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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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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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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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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To have nothing is not poverty.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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