If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MARTIALSee, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
More Martial Quotes
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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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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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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