Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIALFor life is only life when blessed with health.
More Martial Quotes
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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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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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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 crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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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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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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