I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIALI know all that better than my own name.
MARTIALIf 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.
MARTIALRarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
MARTIALOf no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
MARTIALA 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.
MARTIALTo-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
MARTIALYou should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
MARTIALIf fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIALI have not hated the man, but his faults.
MARTIALThat which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
MARTIALI seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIALWhile you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIALSome things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIALThe face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIALSome good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIALBirds of a feather will flock together.
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