He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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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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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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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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