If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIALIf fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
More Martial Quotes
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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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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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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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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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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