Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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