You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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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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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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