It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIALToo late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
More Martial Quotes
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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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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To have nothing is not poverty.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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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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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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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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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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