She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
MARTIALNothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
More Martial Quotes
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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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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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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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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I 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.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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A 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.
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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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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.
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