Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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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 have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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I know all that better than my own name.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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