If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIALIf you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
More Martial Quotes
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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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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Life is not living, but living in health.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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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 should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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