I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARTIALRemember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
More Martial Quotes
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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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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