You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIALYou ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIALHidden evils are most dreaded.
MARTIALA vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIALGifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
MARTIALWhoever is not too wise is wise.
MARTIALIf you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
MARTIALI 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.
MARTIALI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARTIALThe shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
MARTIALA cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIALHe 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.
MARTIALTo have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIALHe who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIALWork divided is in that manner shortened.
MARTIALI do not hate the man, but his vices.
MARTIALSome good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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