Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIALBirds of a feather will flock together.
More Martial Quotes
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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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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I know all that better than my own name.
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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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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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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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