Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MARTIALYour page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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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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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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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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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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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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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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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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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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