For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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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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