If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIALRed-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
More Martial Quotes
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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