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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• 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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• 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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• Wine and women bring misery.

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  Wine, Misery, Women And Wine

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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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• To-morrow I will live, the fool does say;
  To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

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  Life, Wise, Yesterday

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.251

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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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• 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 feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

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  Imagination, Feelings, Intuition

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

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  Fame, After Death, Gloria

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• He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

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  Education, Reading, Writing

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

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  Knowing, Sorrow, Genuine

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• He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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  Bears, Fortitude, Burden

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

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  Fame, After Death, Ifs

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

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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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• 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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• The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

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  Men, Novices, Virtuous

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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.]

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  Success, Butterfly, Bulls

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• Spare the person but lash the vice.

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  Vices, Lashes, Persons

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

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  Friendship, Book, Made

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