If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich. — Martial Copy Share Image
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts. — Martial Copy Share Image
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which… — 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
If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.] — Martial Copy Share Image
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if… — Martial Copy Share Image
I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half… — Martial Copy Share Image
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner.… — Martial Copy Share Image
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety… — Martial Copy Share Image
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you're a good man, you're a wonder! — 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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