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71 Quotes for 'Marcus Valerius Martial' in the Database.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
[Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.]
Topic: Grief
Source: Epigrams (I, 34, 4)
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
[Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]
Topic: Joy
Source: Epigrams (bk. I, 16, 8)
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My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or
poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been
stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to
him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures,
dilate on the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the
perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllae, the Marii,
and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my
three goats.
Topic: Judges
Source: Epigrams (bk. VI, ep. 19)
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I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two
thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a
thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was
lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more,
Sextus, as I had to blush for you.
Topic: Judges
Source: Epigrams (bk. VIII, ep. 18)
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Be merry if you are wise.
[Lat., Ride si sapis.]
Topic: Merriment
Source: Epigrams (II, 41, 1)
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Topic: Past
Source: None
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There are many different voice and languages; but there is but
one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true
"Father of your country."
[Lat., Vox diversa sonat: populorum est vox tamen una,
Cum verus Patriae diceris esse Pater.]
Topic: Patriotism
Source: De Spectaculis (III, 11)
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The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun:
Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
Topic: Pen
Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 208), (translation by Wright), on a shorthand writer
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My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is
yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."
Topic: Plagiarism
Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 53)
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Why, simpleton, do you mix your verses with mine? What have you
to do, foolish man, with writings that convict you of theft? Why
do you attempt to associate foxes with lions, and make owls pass
for eagles? Though you had one of Ladas's legs, you would not be
able, blockhead, to run with the other leg of wood.
Topic: Plagiarism
Source: Epigrams (bk. X, ep. 100)
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To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epigrams (XI, 32, 8)
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
[Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epigrams (XII, 10, 2)
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Where McGregor sits, there is the head of the table.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Epigrams (XII, 10, 2)
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When Fannius from his foe did fly
Himself with his own hands he slew;
Who e'er a greater madness knew?
Life to destroy for fear to die.
Topic: Suicide
Source: Epigrams (bk. II, 80)
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself
the singer of its own dirge.
Topic: Swans
Source: Epigrams (bk. XIII, ep. LXXVII)
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To-morrow you will live, you always cry;
In what fair country does this morrow lie,
That 'tis so mighty long ere it arrive?
Beyond the Indies does this morrow live?
'Tis so far-fetched, this morrow, that I fear
'Twill be both very old and very dear.
"To-morrow I will live," the fool does say:
To-day itself's too late;--the wise lived yesterday.
Topic: Tomorrow
Source: Epigrams (bk. V, ep. LVIII)
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Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as
an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor.
Topic: Undertakers
Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 47)
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You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I
were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine
what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become
a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?
Topic: Wealth
Source: Epigrams (bk. XII, ep. 92)
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You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you
wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.
Topic: Wishes
Source: Epigrams (bk. V, ep. 83)
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
[Lat., Divisum sic breve fiet opus.]
Topic: Work
Source: Epigrams (bk. IV, 83, 8)
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells?
To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.
Topic: Work
Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 49)
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