Martial Quotes

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• Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
• If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
• To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
• While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred…
• Life's not just about being alive, but being well.
• There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
• I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring…
• It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
• He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
• 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…
• The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,'…
• Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always…
• No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
• Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
• I have not hated the man, but his faults.
• Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
• You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
• Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
• You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
• A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

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