While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIALIt is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
More Martial Quotes
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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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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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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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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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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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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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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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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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