Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
MARTIALGivers of great dinners know few enemies.
More Martial Quotes
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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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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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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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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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