Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
MARTIALYour seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
More Martial Quotes
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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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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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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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 ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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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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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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