01c. 71 ADI do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.Martial / quote ↗
02c. 71 ADThe good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.Martial / quote ↗
03c. 71 ADThe bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.Martial / quote ↗
08c. 71 ADYou 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 I wish for.Martial / quote ↗
09c. 71 ADYou wish, Paula, to marry Priscus. I am not surprised; You are wise; Priscus will not marry you and he is wise.Martial / quote ↗
10c. 71 ADIs this pleading causes, Cinna? Is this speaking eloquently to say nine words in ten hours? Just now you asked with a loud voice for four more clepsydrae. What a long time you take to say nothing, Cinna!Martial / quote ↗
11c. 71 ADIt is to live twice, when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.Martial / quote ↗
12c. 71 ADWhen you try to conceal your wrinkles, Polla, with paste made from beans, you deceive yourself, not me. Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised. A fault concealed is presumed to be great.Martial / quote ↗
13c. 71 ADWhile an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.Martial / quote ↗
14c. 71 ADYou do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own.Martial / quote ↗
15c. 71 ADJack writes severe lampoons on me, 'tis said— But he writes nothing, who is never read.Martial / quote ↗
16c. 71 ADHe who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whole book full of them?Martial / quote ↗
17c. 71 ADYou manufacture, with the aid of unguents, a false head of hair, and your bald and dirty skull is covered with dyed locks. There is no need to have a hairdresser for your head. A sponge, Phoebus, would do the business better.Martial / quote ↗
18c. 71 ADYou collect your straggling hairs on each side, Marinus, endeavoring to conceal the vast expanse of your shining bald pate by the locks which still grow on your temples. But the hairs disperse, and return to their own place with every gust of wind; flanking your bare poll on either side with crude tufts. We might imagine we saw Hermeros of Cydas standing between Speudophorus and Telesphorus. Why not confess yourself an old man? Be content to seem what you really are, and let the barber shave off the rest of your hair. There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.Martial / quote ↗
19c. 71 ADYou say, you nothing owe; and so I say: He only owes, who something hath to pay.Martial / quote ↗
20c. 71 ADBe satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.Martial / quote ↗
24c. 71 ADBe content with what you are and wish not change not dread your last day not long for it.Martial / quote ↗
