Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
MARTIALGivers of great dinners know few enemies.
More Martial Quotes
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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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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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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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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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Life consists not merely in existing, 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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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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