Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIALNeither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
More Martial Quotes
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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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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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 importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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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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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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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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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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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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