A novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIALNothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
More Martial Quotes
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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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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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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