Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
MARTIALBe not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
More Martial Quotes
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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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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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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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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