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Inspirational Quotations by Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Inspirational Quotations by Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Martial (c.40–c.104 CE,) Latin name Marcus Valerius Martialis, was a Roman epigrammatist and Latin poet of Spanish origin.

Martial wrote 15 books of Epigrams that consist of over 1,500 short poems that typically direct speak to individuals. His epigrams include celebrations of friendship and the country life, and flattery of the emperor Domitian.

Martial is noted for his satirical and often obscene portraits of the inhabitants of contemporaneous Rome; he prudently uses pseudonyms to disguise the names of those he satirizes.

Martial was much imitated by 17th-century poets such as Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and Abraham Cowley.

Well-known translations of Martial’s Epigrams include Thomas May’s Selected Epigrams (1629) and Peter Porter’s After Martial (1972.)

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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
—Martial
Topics: Mistakes

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.
—Martial
Topics: Life, Memory, Goodness

Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: today itself’s too late; the wise lived yesterday.
—Martial
Topics: The Present, Delay

To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
—Martial
Topics: The Past, Satisfaction, Past

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial
Topics: Fame

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.
—Martial
Topics: Being Ourselves

Laugh if you are wise.
—Martial
Topics: Laughter

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
—Martial
Topics: Acceptance, Realization, Awareness

Whoever makes great presents expects great presents in return.
—Martial
Topics: Giving

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