If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
MARTIALWish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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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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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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