To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIALWish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
More Martial Quotes
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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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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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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