The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
MARTIALHe 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?
More Martial Quotes
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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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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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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