The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
MARTIALTomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
More Martial Quotes
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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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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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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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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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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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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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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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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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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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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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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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 you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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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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