Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIALOf no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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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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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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