No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIALThe virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
More Martial Quotes
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I know all that better than my own name.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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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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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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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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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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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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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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