Martial

“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”

“If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.”

“There is no living with thee, nor without thee.”

“It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, 'I will live.' To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.”

“He who lives everywhere lives nowhere.”

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

“A good man is always a beginner.”

“You will always be poor if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to none save the rich.”

“Rarity gives a charm.”

“Why do I not send you, Pontilianus, my book? For fear, Pontilianus, that you should send me yours.”

“He's a wise man who doesn't grieve for the things which he hasn't, but rejoices for those which he has.”

“You are pretty, we know it. And young, it is true. And rich, who can deny it? But when you praise yourself too much, Fabulla, you are neither pretty, nor young, nor rich.”

“You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives you a wretched dinner. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.”

“To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.”

“To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”