What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIALA vagrant is everywhere at home.
More Martial Quotes
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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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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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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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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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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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