Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIALIf your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
More Martial Quotes
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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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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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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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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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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