If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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 know all that better than my own name.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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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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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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