A Quote by Martial

To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.] — © Martial
To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]
Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]
Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]
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