One genius has made many clever artists.
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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Wine and women bring misery.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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