Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MARTIALIt is folly to waste labour about trifles.
More Martial Quotes
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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