What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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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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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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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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Wine and women bring misery.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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