Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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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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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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