You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
MARTIALA fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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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 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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Wine and women bring misery.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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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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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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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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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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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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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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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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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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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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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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