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Martial Quotes about Life

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Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Martial
Life, Live For Today, Too Late
'Epigrammata' bk. 1, no. 15

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

Martial
Life, Naughty, Life Is
Epigrams, I, 4, c. 80 - 104 AD.

To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.

Martial
Life, Wise, Yesterday
Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.251

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Martial
Life, Men
Martial (1967). “Sixty poems of Martial, in translation”

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Martial
Life, Past, Two
Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

Martial
Life, Dying, Puff
Martial, John Patrick Sullivan (1987). “Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands”, p.301, Univ of California Press

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

Martial
Life, Past, Men
"Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), X. 23. 7 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."

Martial
Life, Thee, I Can
Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.39

Life is not living, but living in health.

Martial
Life, Fitness, Health
Epigrams VI. 70 (transl. W. C. Ker, 1919)

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

Martial
Life, Without You, Morose

Life's not just about being alive, but being well.

Martial
Life, Inspirational Life, Alive

It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.

Martial
Life, Wise, Believe
"Epigrams" (c. 80-104 AD), I. 16. 11 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

Martial
Life, Thinking, Long
Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.293

No man is quick enough to enjoy life.

Martial
Life, Men, Inspire
Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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