You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIALYour page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
More Martial Quotes
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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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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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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