Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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