Martial Quotes - Page 2

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• The face that cannot smile is never fair.

  Martial

  Faces, Fairs

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

  Martial

  Life, Past, Two

  Epigrams, X, 23, 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

  Martial

  Past, Looks, Able

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• If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
  [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

  Martial

  Fame, After Death, Gloria

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• Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

  Martial

  Joy, Aviation, Flight

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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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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• This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
  [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]

  Martial

  Death, Order, Madness

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• A vagrant is everywhere at home.

  Martial

  Home, Journey, Hiking

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• Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.

  Martial

  Wish, Position

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• While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

  Martial

  Identity, Lasts, Resolve

  "Epigrams".

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• Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.

  Martial

  Pride, Other Worlds, Generosity

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• He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

  Martial

  Bears, Fortitude, Burden

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• There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

  Martial

  Busybodies

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• Hidden evils are most dreaded.

  Martial

  Evil

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• If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

  Martial

  Fame, After Death, Ifs

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.225

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• I 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.

  Martial

  Love, Hands, Missing

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• Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

  Martial

  Friendship, Book, Made

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• There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

  Martial

  Love, Confusion, Thee

  Martial, Andrew Amos (1858). “Martial and the Moderns, by Andrew Amos”, p.117

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• The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
  [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones;
  Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

  Martial

  Success, Butterfly, Bulls

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• Can the fish love the fisherman?
  [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]

  Martial

  Fisherman, Fishes

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

  Martial

  Believe, Men, Unhappiness

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• Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.

  Martial

  Return

  "Epigrams". V. 59. 3, c. 80-104 AD.

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• Spare the person but lash the vice.

  Martial

  Vices, Lashes, Persons

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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.

  Martial

  Blessing, Ungrateful, Doe

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

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• You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

  Martial

  Girl, Nice, Giving

  "Epigrams". Book by Martial, IV, 71, c. 80 - 104 AD.

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