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“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
-- Martial
#Health #Alive #Life Is
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“There is no living with thee, nor without thee.”
-- Martial
#Love #Thee
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“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”
-- Martial
#Caring #World #Flaws
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“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
-- Martial
#Life #Today #Too Late
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“Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.”
-- Martial
#Strong #Exercise #Men
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“It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.”
-- Martial
#Imagination #Feelings #Intuition
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“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”
-- Martial
#Life #Past #Two
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“Life is not living, but living in health.”
-- Martial
#Fitness #Life Is
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“There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.”
-- Martial
#Glory #Donkey
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“Wine and women bring misery.”
-- Martial
#Wine #Misery #Women And Wine
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“Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.”
-- Martial
#Creative #Pages #Thieves
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“There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.”
-- Martial
#Dignity #Glory #Donkey
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“My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.”
-- Martial
#Life #Naughty #Life Is
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“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
#Accomplishment #Age #Praying
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“A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.”
-- Martial
#Life #Men
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“You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.”
-- Martial
#Life #Dying #Puff
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“The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.”
-- Martial
#Flaws
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“You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!”
-- Martial
#Giving #Promise #Wish
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“Those they praise, but they read the others.”
-- Martial
#Praise
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“See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?”
-- Martial
#Eating #Fats #Grows
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“You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.”
-- Martial
#Giving #Wish #Three
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“Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!”
-- Martial
#Men #Good Man #Black
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“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.”
-- Martial
#Life #Thinking #Long
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“A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.”
-- Martial
#Life #Past #Men
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“Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.”
-- Martial
#Wish #Position
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“You may envy every one, but no one envies you.”
-- Martial
#Envy #May
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“Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]”
-- Martial
#Cobblers #Remember #Memento
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“A vagrant is everywhere at home.”
-- Martial
#Home #Vagrants #Walking
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“To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
-- Martial
#Past #Able #Life Is
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“To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]”
-- Martial
#Poverty
