To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIALGlory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
More Martial Quotes
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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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.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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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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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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