Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIALYou complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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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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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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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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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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