In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
MARTIALA man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
More Martial Quotes
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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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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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