I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIALGenuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
More Martial Quotes
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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