Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
MARTIALOf no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
More Martial Quotes
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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