See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
MARTIALLife consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
More Martial Quotes
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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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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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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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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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 do not hate the man, but his vices.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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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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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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