It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIALWhoever is not too wise is wise.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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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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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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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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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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