Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
MARTIALMan loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
More Martial Quotes
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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