Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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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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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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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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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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