It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIALBe merry if you are wise.
More Martial Quotes
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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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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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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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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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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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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