There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
MARTIALA vagrant is everywhere at home.
More Martial Quotes
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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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 do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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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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