black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

Martial

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
MARTIAL

Content Preference Yourself
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
MARTIAL

Herself Woman
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIAL

Solution Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MARTIAL

Alive Life One Liner
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MARTIAL

Ash Glory Late
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.
MARTIAL

Borrow Himself Lose Preference
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
MARTIAL

Hide One Liner Sorrow True
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
MARTIAL

Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIAL

Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
MARTIAL

Food Greatness Hold Value
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
MARTIAL

Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
MARTIAL

Fools Labour Wasted
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
MARTIAL

Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MARTIAL

Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MARTIAL

Honey Similar
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MARTIAL

Death Fame Hurry Myself

To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Martial Quotes