Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIALRed-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIALYou are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIALA 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.
MARTIALBe 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.
MARTIALA cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIALNeither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
MARTIALI wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
MARTIALWhen your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALI am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
MARTIALYou 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!
MARTIALTomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
MARTIALIf you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIALWho gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
MARTIALMy poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MARTIALHe 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?
MARTIALThe bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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