Be cheerful, if you are wise. Martial More Quotes by Martial More Quotes From Martial Life's not just about being alive, but being well. Martial inspirational-life alive life A vagrant is everywhere at home. Martial hiking journey home It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure Martial able looks past What's a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases. Martial wretched please men If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich. Martial riches poverty poor To have nothing is not poverty. Martial poverty Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh. Martial ill laughing Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world. Martial generosity other-worlds pride It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. Martial form gold idols Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud. Martial malice proud men There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody. Martial busybodies While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death. Martial amber shade tree I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse. Martial borrowing granted refuse You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you. Martial morose without-you life There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. Martial bald-man hair men The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. Martial tongue done hands The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. Martial swans singers sweet You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow. Martial laurels crowns Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. Martial fly-away wings joy A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard. Martial overboard three steps
