I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
MARTIALThe face that cannot smile is never fair.
More Martial Quotes
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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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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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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