Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
MARTIALIt is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
More Martial Quotes
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I know all that better than my own name.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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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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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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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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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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