When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALYou give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
More Martial Quotes
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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