Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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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 is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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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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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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