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.
MARTIALHidden evils are most dreaded.
More Martial Quotes
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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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.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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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 complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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