No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
MARTIALIf fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
More Martial Quotes
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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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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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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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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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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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