Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
MARTIALCan the fish love the fisherman?
More Martial Quotes
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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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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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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