When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALEpigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
More Martial Quotes
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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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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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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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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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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