To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
MARTIALI have not hated the man, but his faults.
More Martial Quotes
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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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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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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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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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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