Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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