A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIALTis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
More Martial Quotes
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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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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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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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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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