Martial Quotes

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• Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

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  Health, Fitness Motivational, Ayurveda

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• There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

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  Men, Hair, Bald Man

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.489

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• To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.

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  Past, Able, Life Is

  "Epigrams". Book X, 23. As translated in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett (1919), c. 80 - 104 AD.

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• Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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  Should Have, Honey, Bees

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• Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

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  Life, Live For Today, Too Late

  'Epigrammata' bk. 1, no. 15

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• It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

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  Idols, Gold, Form

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• Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

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  Enemy, Dinner, Giver

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• Wine and women bring misery.

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  Wine, Misery, Women And Wine

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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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  Blessing, Ungrateful, Doe

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.297

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• He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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  Bears, Fortitude, Burden

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• It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

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  Imagination, Feelings, Intuition

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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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  Birthday, Believe, Giving

  Martial (1907). “Epigrams”

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• Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

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  Knowing, Sorrow, Genuine

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• Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

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  Caring, World, Caregivers

  "Epigrams" by Martial, III, 42, c. 80 - 104 AD.

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• He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

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  Education, Reading, Writing

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• Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

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  Hook, Greedy, Deceived

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• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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  Giving, Too Much, Wealth

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.549

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• Be merry if you are wise.

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  Wise, Merry, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 511-12, Epigrams, II. 41. 1, 1922.

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• Spare the person but lash the vice.

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  Vices, Lashes, Persons

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• A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

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  Life, Men

  Martial (1967). “Sixty poems of Martial, in translation”

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• Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.

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  Husband, Taken, Wife

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• My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

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  Life, Naughty, Life Is

  Epigrams, I, 4, c. 80 - 104 AD.

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• It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

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  Past, Looks, Able

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• I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

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  Believe, Men, Unhappiness

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• Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

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  Life, Past, Two

  Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.

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