Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIALA vagrant is everywhere at home.
More Martial Quotes
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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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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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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