Top 155 Quotes & Sayings by Martial - Page 3
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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 sent you.
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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.
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures,
That is the only wealth for ever yours.
[Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis;
Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied
with reading a hundred epigrams.
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!
You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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?
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
[Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
The present joys of life we doubly taste,
By looking back with pleasure to the past.
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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