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

  Martial

  Believe, Men, Unhappiness

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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?

  Martial

  Hook, Greedy, Deceived

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

  Martial

  Return

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

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• The face that cannot smile is never fair.

  Martial

  Faces, Fairs

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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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• 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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• A vagrant is everywhere at home.

  Martial

  Home, Journey, Hiking

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• In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

  Martial

  Adversity, Brave, Easy

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• If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

  Martial

  Riches, Poverty, Poor

  Martial (1907). “The Epigrams of Martial”

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• Gifts are like hooks.

  Martial

  Hook

  Martial, Garry Wills (2008). “Martial's Epigrams: A Selection”, p.80, CUP Archive

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

  Martial

  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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• 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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• Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

  Martial

  Strong, Exercise, Men

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

  Martial

  Fisherman, Fishes

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• To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

  Martial

  Ashes, Too Late, Reputation

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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.

  Martial

  Husband, Taken, Wife

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• To have nothing is not poverty.
  [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

  Martial

  Poverty

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• There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

  Martial

  Dignity, Glory, Donkey

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• Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

  Martial

  Fear, Long

  "Martial epigrams". Book by Martial, X, 47, 1897.

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• She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

  Martial

  Grief, Grieving, Unseen

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