Service cannot be expected ...

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
 Martial

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
 Martial
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
 Martial
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
 Martial
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.
 Martial
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
 Martial