The face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIALYou are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
More Martial Quotes
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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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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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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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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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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