Martial Quotes About Life

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  • My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

    Epigrams, I, 4, c. 80 - 104 AD.
  • Life is not living, but living in health.

    Epigrams VI. 70 (transl. W. C. Ker, 1919)
  • Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

    Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.
  • It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.

    "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), I. 16. 11 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.
  • Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

    'Epigrammata' bk. 1, no. 15
  • Life's not just about being alive, but being well.

  • A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

    Men  
    Martial (1967). “Sixty poems of Martial, in translation”
  • No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

    Men  
    Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
  • You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

    Martial, John Patrick Sullivan (1987). “Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands”, p.301, Univ of California Press
  • 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.

    Men  
    "Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), X. 23. 7 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.
  • You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

  • To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

    Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.251
  • He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

    Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.293
  • I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."

    Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.39
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