Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend. — Martial Copy Share Image
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear... But yours gives most; for mine… — Martial Copy Share Image
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid… — Martial Copy Share Image
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter. — Martial Copy Share Image
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. — Martial Copy Share Image
All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in… — Martial Copy Share Image
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. — Martial Copy Share Image
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure — Martial Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other… — Martial Copy Share Image
“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch,but she won't say no.” — Martial Copy Share Image
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. — Martial Copy Share Image
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door… — Martial Copy Share Image
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