Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
MARTIALSuch are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
More Martial Quotes
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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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 have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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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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