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Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis, 43-104 AD ,  Roman poet of epigrams
MartialRoman poet from Hispania (Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams.
He has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist, and is considered the creator of the modern epigram.

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Quotations

The way we die is sadder than death itself.

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

You complain, my friend, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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

Vice and virtue must look much the same
to one who calls the whole world “nice”.


It is not poverty, Nestor, to have nothing at all.

He who refuses nothing will soon have nothing to refuse.

Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.

Latin Quotes

Life is not about living, but to live a good life.

Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.



If glory comes after death, I hurry not.

Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.



Fortune to many gives too much, enough to none.

Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.




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