Work divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIALSome are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Life is not living, but living in health.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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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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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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