Wine and women bring misery.
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More Martial Quotes
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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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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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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