To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIALTo be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIALTis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
MARTIALGifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
MARTIALI 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.
MARTIALBe cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIALLife consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
MARTIALIt is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
MARTIALA novice always behaves with propriety.
MARTIALYou importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
MARTIALGenuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
MARTIALLife is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MARTIALThe face that cannot smile is never fair.
MARTIALWhen your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALSome good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIALYou are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIALWhile you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIAL