If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIALThere is no living with thee, nor without thee.
More Martial Quotes
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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