You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIALIf I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
More Martial Quotes
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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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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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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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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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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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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