If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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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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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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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 not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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