The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
MARTIALGlory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
More Martial Quotes
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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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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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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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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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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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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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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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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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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