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Martial

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Martial Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Martial

Birthname

Nationality: Spain, Ancient Rome

Occupations: Writer, Poet

Total quotes: 5

“Aper's teetotal. So what? I commend sobriety in a butler, not a friend.”

— Martial, Epigrams: With parallel Latin text(Oxford World's Classics)

Tagged: Life

“When the ground is poor, the ox works listlessly; rich soil tires but there's satisfaction then in toil.”

— Martial, Epigrams, Volume I: Spectacles, Books 1-5 (Loeb Classical Library)

Tagged: Life

“You ask me what I get
Out of my country place
The profit, gross or net
It's never seeing your face. ”

— Martial, Epigrams, Volume I: Spectacles, Books 1-5

Tagged: Life

“Let me quote a proverb from the Greek: 'I hate an unforgetful drinking mate.'”

— Martial, Mark Kurlansky, Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History

Tagged: Life

“This is a conqueror's fountain, not a trough for your defeated race.”

— Martial, Epigrams

Tagged: strategy

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