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.
MARTIALThe African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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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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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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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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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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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