Epigrams Quotes

“...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

“Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.”
― Martial, Epigrams

“Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

“Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.
- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi”
― Martial, Epigrams

“nec possum tecum vivere, nec sine te."

*Martial, Epigrams 12, XLVI”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

“Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

“Tomorrow I'll start living,' you say, Postumus: always tomorrow: Tell me, the 'tomorrow,' Postumus, when's it coming? How far off is that 'tomorrow?”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

“Cras te victurum, cras dicis, Postume, semper.
dic mihi, cras istud, Postume, quando venit?
quam longe cras istud, ubi est? aut unde petendum?
numquid apud Parthos Armeniosque latet?
iam cras istud habet Priami vel Nestoris annos.
cras istud quanti, dic mihi, possit emi?
cras vives? hodie iam vivere, Postume, serum est:
ille sapit quisquis, Postume, vixit heri.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

“terrarum dominum pone supercilium”
― Martial, Select Epigrams of Martial

“mollem credere te virum volebam,
sed rumor negat esse te cinaedum.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams

“Blåis henger ned fra hundesnuten,
og skjegget stritter -
jeg vil heller møte hundre fitteslikkere.”
― Martial, The Epigrams Of Martial

“Semper pauper eris, sī pauper es, Aemiliāne: Dantur opēs nūllī nunc nisi dīvitibus.”
― Martial, Epigrams