Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIALA man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
More Martial Quotes
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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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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Wine and women bring misery.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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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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Life is not living, but living in health.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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