A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIALBirds of a feather will flock together.
More Martial Quotes
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is 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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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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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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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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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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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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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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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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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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