Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
MARTIALOne genius has made many clever artists.
More Martial Quotes
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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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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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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