This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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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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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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