Wine and women bring misery.
MARTIALWork divided is in that manner shortened.
More Martial Quotes
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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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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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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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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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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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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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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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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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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