Martial - Living Quotes

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You puff the poets of other days,
The living you deplore.
Spare me the accolade: your praise
Is not worth dying for.

Martial

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

Martial

He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.

Martial