A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIALYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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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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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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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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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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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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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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