If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIALIt is folly to waste labour about trifles.
More Martial Quotes
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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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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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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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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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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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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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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