Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIALIf you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
More Martial Quotes
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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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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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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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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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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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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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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