When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALThere is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
More Martial Quotes
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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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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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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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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To have nothing is not poverty.
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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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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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