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15 Martial Quotes

Martial writes sharp, witty musings on friendship, love, and language.

Martial quotes

  1. Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.

    #1

  2. Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.

    #2

  3. Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.

    #3

  4. You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

    #4

  5. Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.

    #5

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

    #6

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

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  8. Nullos esse deos, inane caelum Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum.

    #8

  9. si post fata venit gloria, non propero.

    #9

  10. Nobis pereunt et imputantur.

    #10

  11. A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

    #11

  12. Laudas balnea versibus trecentis Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.

    #12

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

    #13

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

    #14

  15. Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te.

    #15