It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
MARTIALYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
More Martial Quotes
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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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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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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