Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIALFortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
More Martial Quotes
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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