Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
MARTIALLife consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
More Martial Quotes
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Gifts are like hooks.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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