Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIALIt is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
More Martial Quotes
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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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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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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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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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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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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