He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
MARTIALWhile an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
More Martial Quotes
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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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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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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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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A 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.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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