No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
MARTIALWho gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
More Martial Quotes
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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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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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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