Those they praise, but they read the others.
MARTIALA man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
More Martial Quotes
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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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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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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