Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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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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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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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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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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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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