A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
MARTIALThere is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
More Martial Quotes
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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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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