He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
MARTIALBe cheerful, if you are wise.
More Martial Quotes
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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