Quotes from Epigrams — Martial
102–104
32 quotes
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow's life is too late; live today.
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
It is not poverty, Nestor, to have nothing at all.
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
If glory comes after death, I hurry not.
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.
'Tis a hard task this, not to sacrifice manners to wealth.
They [the hours] pass by, and are put to our account.
Take while you can; brief is the moment of profit.
Fortune to many gives too much, enough to none.
They praise those works, but read these.
Divided the work will thus become brief.
The mode of death is sadder than death itself.
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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