What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIALNo man is quick enough to enjoy life.
More Martial Quotes
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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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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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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