Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIALLife is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
More Martial Quotes
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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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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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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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.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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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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