No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIALNo hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
MARTIALI 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.
MARTIALThis I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIALBirds of a feather will flock together.
MARTIALOf no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
MARTIALYou are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIALIt is folly to waste labour about trifles.
MARTIALYou ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIALThe virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARTIALHe truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
MARTIALWine and women bring misery.
MARTIALI have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
MARTIALThose they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIALIt 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.
MARTIALRed-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIALWhile you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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