While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIALThis I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
More Martial Quotes
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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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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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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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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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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