Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIALWhen your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
More Martial Quotes
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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He 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?
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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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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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