You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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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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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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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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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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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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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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