To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIALOne genius has made many clever artists.
More Martial Quotes
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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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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