Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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