If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
MARTIALNo amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
More Martial Quotes
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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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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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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