You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIALFor wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
More Martial Quotes
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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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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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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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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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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