MMartial

31 collected words

Martial

Life dates: 40 AD — 102 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 71 AD

Each day provides its own gifts.

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02c. 71 AD

While you cannot resolve what you are at last you will be nothing.

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03c. 71 AD

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

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04c. 71 AD

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

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05c. 71 AD

Tomorrow I will live the fool does say today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.

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06c. 71 AD

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.

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07c. 71 AD

Tomorrow life is too late: live today.

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