The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
MARTIALMake it a point not to be over-fascinating.
More Martial Quotes
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Wine and women bring misery.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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