Marcus Valerius Martialis Quotes

#1. Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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#2. Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

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#3. Laugh if you are wise, girl, laugh.

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

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#5. Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

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#6. Because he hates to praise by name
He praises everybody. Vice
And virtue must look much the same
To one who calls the whole world "nice".

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#7. You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

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#8. Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

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#9. Flaccus, the sort of girl I hate
Is the scrawny one, with arms so thin
My rings would fit them, hips that grate,
Spine like a saw, knees like a pin
And a coccyx like a javelin.
But all the same I don't go in
For sheer bulk. I appreciate
Good meat, not blubber, on my plate.

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#10. ...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.

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#11. Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.
- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi

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