While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIALI’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
More Martial Quotes
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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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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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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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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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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