Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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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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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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