Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
MARTIALSome good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
More Martial Quotes
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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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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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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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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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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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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