Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIALMy poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
More Martial Quotes
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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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 African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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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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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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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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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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