For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIALHe truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
More Martial Quotes
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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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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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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