Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Martial (c.40–c.104 CE,) Latin name Marcus Valerius Martialis, was a Roman epigrammatist and Latin poet of Spanish origin.

Martial wrote 15 books of Epigrams that consist of over 1,500 short poems that typically direct speak to individuals. His epigrams include celebrations of friendship and the country life, and flattery of the emperor Domitian.

Martial is noted for his satirical and often obscene portraits of the inhabitants of contemporaneous Rome; he prudently uses pseudonyms to disguise the names of those he satirizes.

Martial was much imitated by 17th-century poets such as Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and Abraham Cowley.

Well-known translations of Martial’s Epigrams include Thomas May’s Selected Epigrams (1629) and Peter Porter’s After Martial (1972.)

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Laugh if you are wise.
Martial
Topics: Laughter

Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
Martial
Topics: Living, The Present

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.
Martial
Topics: Satisfaction

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial
Topics: Fame

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
Martial
Topics: Money

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
Martial
Topics: The Present, Blessings

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
Martial
Topics: Lovers, Love

It is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
Martial
Topics: Past

For life is only life when blest with health.
Martial
Topics: One liners

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Martial
Topics: Individuality

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
Martial
Topics: Glory

Each day provides its own gifts.
Martial
Topics: Time Management, Boredom, Value of Time, Gift

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
Martial
Topics: Charm

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what you make me wish for.
Martial
Topics: Inheritance

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Martial
Topics: Faults, Mistakes

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.
Martial
Topics: Being Ourselves

Life is not to live, but to be well.
Martial
Topics: Health

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Martial
Topics: Fame

Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: today itself’s too late; the wise lived yesterday.
Martial
Topics: The Present, Delay

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
Martial
Topics: Fortune

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man, nor has one passed away which he is unwilling to remember: the period of his life seems prolonged by his good acts; and we may be said to live twice, when we can reflect with pleasure on the days that are gone.
Martial

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
Martial
Topics: Health

Fortune gives too much to many, but to none enough.
Martial
Topics: Wealth, Fortune

To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Martial
Topics: The Past, Past, Satisfaction

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Martial
Topics: Love

Life is not living, but living in health.
Martial
Topics: One liners

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Martial
Topics: Realization, Awareness, Acceptance

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
Martial
Topics: Exercise

I have not hated the man, but his faults.
Martial
Topics: Faults

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
Martial
Topics: Lawyers

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