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.
MARTIALSome are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
More Martial Quotes
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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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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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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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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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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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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