| 71 Famous Quotes by Marcus Valerius Martial
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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.”
Wishes Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. V, ep. 83)
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“I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I
beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you
too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook
flogged.”
Cookery Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. VIII, ep. 23)
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“A cook should double one sense have: for he
Should taster for himself and master be.”
Cookery Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 220)
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“If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your
fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes
has sent you.”
Cookery Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep.68)
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“The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun:
Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.”
Pen Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 208), (translation by Wright), on a shorthand writer
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“You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
Careless and careful hands like faults commit.”
Faults Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 111), (translation by Wright)
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“You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long.
You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 110)
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“Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in
public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called
mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be
called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 29)
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“The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but,
while you read it so badly, it begins to be yours.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 38)
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“You are pretty,--we know it; and young,--it is true; and rich,--
who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly,
Fabulla, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 64)
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“"You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me,
Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed a
free speaker.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 67)
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“What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss,
And that with thee no other odour is?
'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell
So sweetly always, smells not very well.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. II, ep. 12)
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“Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you
might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. II, ep. 35)
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“In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately,
and your very first words are, "How do you do?" You say this,
even if you meet me ten times in one single hour: you, Postumus,
have nothing, I suppose, to do.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. II, ep. 67)
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“If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in
temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask
the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would
freeze the warm baths of Nero.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. III, ep. 25)
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“I could do without your face, and your neck, and your hands, and
your limbs, and your bosom, and other of your charms. Indeed,
not to fatigue myself with enumerating each of them, I could do
without you, Chloe, altogether.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. III, ep. 53)
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“Lycoris has buried all the female friends she had, Fabianus:
would she were the friend of my wife!”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. IV, ep. 24)
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“You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now
you buy it--I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was
already your own.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. IV, ep. 79)
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“Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your
frequent requests and importunities, I have never presented you
with my works? I have an excellent reason; it is lest you should
present me with yours.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. V., ep. 73)
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“You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them
on covered. This is ridiculous; in the same way I could put fine
dished on my table.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. X, ep. 54)
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“And have you been able, Flaccus, to see the slender Thais? Then,
Flaccus, I suspect you can see what is invisible.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XI, ep. 101)
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“You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What
can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey to
be produced, and yet offer the Attic bee nothing but Corsican
thyme?”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XI, ep. 42)
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“When to secure your bald pate from the weather,
You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;
He was a very wag, who to you said,
"Why do you wear your slippers on your head?"”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XII, ep. 45), (trans. by Hay)
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“See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you
would expect it to fall; it is merely showing its contempt for
the dogs.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XIII, ep. 99)
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“Never think of leaving perfumes or wine to your heir. Administer
these yourself, and let him have your money.”
Epigrams Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. XIII, sp. 126)
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