Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIALYou ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
More Martial Quotes
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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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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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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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 shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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