You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
MARTIALIf my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
More Martial Quotes
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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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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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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