Life is not living, but living in health.
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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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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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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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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