Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis was born sometime around 40 A D at Bilbilis, a small town in the north-east of Spain.
Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri.
Divisum sic breve fiet opus.
Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies.
Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.
Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.
Nobis pereunt et imputantur.
Laudas balnea versibus trecentis
Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle.
Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.
Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.
Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus.
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:
Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores.
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est
Vivere bis vita posse priore frui.
He who refuses nothing... will soon have nothing to refuse.
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem:
Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te.