See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
MARTIALYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
More Martial Quotes
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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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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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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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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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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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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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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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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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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