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.
MARTIALIt is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
More Martial Quotes
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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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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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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