Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIALThe virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
More Martial Quotes
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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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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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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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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 know all that better than my own name.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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