You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
MARTIALHe 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?
More Martial Quotes
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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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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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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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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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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