Laugh, if thou art wise.
MARTIALIf you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
More Martial Quotes
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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