If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIALGivers of great dinners know few enemies.
More Martial Quotes
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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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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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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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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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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