Martial
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.Collection: Men
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.Collection: Fear
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.Collection: Grief
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.Collection: Busybodies
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.Collection: Giving
While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.Collection: Sarcastic
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]Collection: Passion
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.Collection: Wish
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.Collection: Life
Be cheerful, if you are wise.Collection: Wise
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.Collection: Enjoy
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.Collection: Friendship
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.Collection: Food
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.Collection: Should
Laugh, if thou art wise.Collection: Wise
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.Collection: Sorrow
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.Collection: Accomplishment
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.Collection: Freedom
I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.Collection: Kissing
All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.Collection: Female
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.Collection: Bird
Life's not just about being alive, but being well.Collection: Life
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.Collection: Creative
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.Collection: Flaws
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.Collection: Hands
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.Collection: Eating
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.Collection: Art
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.Collection: Real
The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.Collection: Wise
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.Collection: Crowds
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee."Collection: Life
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.Collection: Three
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]Collection: Wife
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.Collection: Wings
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.Collection: Glory
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.Collection: Book
Life is not living, but living in health.Collection: Life
You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.Collection: Crowns
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.Collection: Book
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.Collection: Giving
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.Collection: Men
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.Collection: Respect
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.Collection: Life