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.
MARTIALNeither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
More Martial Quotes
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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