A novice always behaves with propriety.
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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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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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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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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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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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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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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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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