My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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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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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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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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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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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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