Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
MARTIALFortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
More Martial Quotes
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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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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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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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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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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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’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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