If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIALWine and women bring misery.
More Martial Quotes
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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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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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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