Be merry if you are wise.
MARTIALA man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
More Martial Quotes
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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I know all that better than my own name.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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