For life is only life when blessed with health.
MARTIALI do not hate the man, but his vices.
More Martial Quotes
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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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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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?
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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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.
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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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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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.
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