I do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIALI 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.
More Martial Quotes
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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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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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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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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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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I know all that better than my own name.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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