To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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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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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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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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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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