Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIALFortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
More Martial Quotes
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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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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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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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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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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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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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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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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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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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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