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Marcus Valerius Martial [43-104] Spanish
Rank: 108
Poet


Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.


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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
101
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
102
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
103
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
104
Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
105
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
106
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
107
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
108
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
109

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