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Quotes by Martial

Martial

“To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.”

“While you cannot resolve what your are, at last you will be nothing.”

“You are looking at numbers and signals, but in the end what is most important here is the experience of the eyes of an expert,”

“[i]t is a defense to any offense that the accused was acting pursuant to orders unless the accused knew the orders to be unlawful or a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known the orders to be unlawful.”

“Those they praise, but they read the others.”

“Believe me, wise men dont say I shall live to do that, tomorrows lifes too late, live today”

“Fortune gives too much to many, but enough to none.”

“The country in town.”

“Life is not living, but being in health.”

You do not publish your own verses Laelius you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine or else publish your own.

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.

Gifts are hooks.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

Be content with what you are and wish not change not dread your last day not long for it.

Each day provides its own gifts.

While you cannot resolve what you are at last you will be nothing.

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

Tomorrows life is too late. Live today.

Tomorrow I will live the fool does say today itselfs too late the wise lived yesterday.