To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIALA vagrant is everywhere at home.
More Martial Quotes
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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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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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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