Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIALI’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
More Martial Quotes
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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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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