Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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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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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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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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