Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
MARTIALI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
More Martial Quotes
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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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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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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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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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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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 do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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I 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.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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