A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIALI have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
More Martial Quotes
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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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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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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