--- title: "Martial Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Martial writes sharp, witty musings on friendship, love, and language. Read and share all 27 quotes by Martial, collected on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Martial quotes 1. > Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba. [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Martial/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 2. > Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. [Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Martial/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 3. > Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own. [Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Martial/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 4. > You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter. [Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Martial/4/ "Permalink to quote 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. [Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Martial/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 6. > Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. [Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Martial/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 7. > You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no. [Permalink to quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Martial/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 8. > Nullos esse deos, inane caelum Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum. [Permalink to quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/Martial/8/ "Permalink to quote 8") 9. > si post fata venit gloria, non propero. [Permalink to quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/Martial/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 10. > Nobis pereunt et imputantur. [Permalink to quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/Martial/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 11. > A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. [Permalink to quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/Martial/11/ "Permalink to quote 11") 12. > Laudas balnea versibus trecentis Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari. [Permalink to quote \#12](https://quotesby.net/Martial/12/ "Permalink to quote 12") 13. > Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure. [Permalink to quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/Martial/13/ "Permalink to quote 13") 14. > Neither fear your death's day nor long for it. [Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Martial/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 15. > Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te. [Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Martial/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") ## Also attributed 1. > Our days pass by, and are scored against us. 2. > If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. 3. > He writes nothing whose writings are not read. 4. > Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. 5. > 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. 6. > A novice always behaves with propriety. 7. > For wealth's now given to none but to the rich. 8. > You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day. 9. > You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. 10. > Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. 11. > Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains. 12. > No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CollectionPage", "name": "Martial Quotes", "url": "https://quotesby.net/Martial", "about": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martial" }, "hasPart": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martial" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martial" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.", "spokenByCharacter": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martial" } }, { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. 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