This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
MARTIALYou praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
More Martial Quotes
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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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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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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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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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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