You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIALSome are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
More Martial Quotes
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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