If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
MARTIALBe merry if you are wise.
More Martial Quotes
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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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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Wine and women bring misery.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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