Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIALYou should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
More Martial Quotes
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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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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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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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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