Quotes from Martial

What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

I have not hated the man, but his faults.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man's field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder!

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

A vagrant is everywhere at home.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

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

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

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

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

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]