He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
MARTIALOne genius has made many clever artists.
More Martial Quotes
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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