Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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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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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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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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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