You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
MARTIALToo late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
More Martial Quotes
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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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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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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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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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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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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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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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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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 jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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