Wine and women bring misery.
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 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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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