To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIALIn adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
More Martial Quotes
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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I know all that better than my own name.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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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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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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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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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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