You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
MARTIALTo-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
More Martial Quotes
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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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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To have nothing is not poverty.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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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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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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