Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
MARTIALNeither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
More Martial Quotes
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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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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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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