There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
MARTIALWhat’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Gifts are like hooks.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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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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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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