I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIALLife’s not just about being alive, but being well.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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