I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

Martial

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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. by Martial

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is... by Martial

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.