Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
MARTIALA jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
More Martial Quotes
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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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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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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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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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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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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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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I 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.
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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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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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