Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIALBe cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIALFor life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIALSome are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
MARTIALHe 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.
MARTIALWish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIALSome things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIALA man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
MARTIALLife is not living, but living in health.
MARTIALIt 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.
MARTIALThose they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIALIt is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIALA vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIALFortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
MARTIALHowever great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIALYou crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
MARTIALIf my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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