It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIALShe grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Wine and women bring misery.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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