Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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He 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.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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