Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIALThere is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
More Martial Quotes
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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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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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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