I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
MARTIALBe not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
More Martial Quotes
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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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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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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