However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIALWhy 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.
More Martial Quotes
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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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 do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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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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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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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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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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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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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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