However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIALLife is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
More Martial Quotes
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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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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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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