Martial - Friend Quotes

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Believing, hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear…
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend.

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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

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All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.

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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures,
That is the only wealth for ever yours.

In Latin: Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.

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