You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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More Martial Quotes
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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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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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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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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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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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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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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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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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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