Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
MARTIALOf no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
More Martial Quotes
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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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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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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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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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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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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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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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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