You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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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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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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