If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIALEvery bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
More Martial Quotes
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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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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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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