Martial
Quotes by Martial
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Be content to seem what you really are.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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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 life is to live twice.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
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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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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Each day provides its own gifts.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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