Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MARTIALFrom no place can you exclude the fates.
More Martial Quotes
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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