It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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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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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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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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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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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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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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 do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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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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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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