No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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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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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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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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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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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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