She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
MARTIALTomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
More Martial Quotes
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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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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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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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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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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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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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