Martial quotes
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“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
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“There is no living with thee, nor without thee.”
-- MartialSource : Martial, Andrew Amos (1858). “Martial and the Moderns, by Andrew Amos”, p.117
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“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”
-- MartialSource : "Epigrams" by Martial, III, 42, c. 80 - 104 AD.
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“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
-- MartialSource : 'Epigrammata' bk. 1, no. 15
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“Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.”
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“It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.”
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“Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.”
-- MartialSource : Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.
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“Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.”
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“My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.”
-- MartialSource : Epigrams, I, 4, c. 80 - 104 AD.
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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.”
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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.”
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“The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.”
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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!”
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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?”
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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.”
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“Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.”
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“Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]”
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“To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
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“To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]”
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“You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.”
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“Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.”
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“Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.”
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“If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.”
-- MartialSource : Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.225
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“Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.”
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“Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.”
-- MartialSource : Martial (1907). “Epigrams”
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“You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.”
-- Martial
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