Can the fish love the fisherman?
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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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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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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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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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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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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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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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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