Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
MARTIALThere is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
More Martial Quotes
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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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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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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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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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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