To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIALGifts are like hooks.
More Martial Quotes
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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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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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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