My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIALIt is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
More Martial Quotes
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Gifts are like hooks.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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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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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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