Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
MARTIALThe face that cannot smile is never fair.
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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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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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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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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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 good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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