If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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More Martial Quotes
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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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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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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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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