Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIALI 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.
More Martial Quotes
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Be merry if you are wise.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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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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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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