Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIALLaugh, if thou art wise.
More Martial Quotes
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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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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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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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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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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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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