Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIALI believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
More Martial Quotes
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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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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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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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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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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