Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIALHe who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
More Martial Quotes
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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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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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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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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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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