The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
MARTIALJoys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
More Martial Quotes
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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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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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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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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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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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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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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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