One genius has made many clever artists.
MARTIALWhile you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
More Martial Quotes
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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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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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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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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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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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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