"I have now gone through the first seven books of Martial, and have learned about 360 of the best lines. His merit seems to me to lie, not in wit, but in the rapid succession of vivid images. I wish he were less nauseous. ... Besides his indecency, his servility and his mendicancy disgust me."

"Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux: Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies."

"Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat."

"Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi."

"Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba."

"Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie."

"Ride, si sapis."

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

"Cineri gloria sera venit."

"Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli."

"Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri."

"The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own."

"I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee."

"Fati valet hora benigni."

"Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem perpetuam, saevis inter se convenit ursis."

"Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano."

"Nam si tibi sidera cessant, nil faciet longi mensura incognita nervi, quamvis te nudum spumanti Virro labello viderit et blandae adsidue densaeque tabellae sollicitent, autos gar ephelketai andra kinaidos."

"Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas."

"Quanto delphinis ballaena Britannica maior."

"Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato: Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema."

"Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas."

"Hic vivimus ambitiosa paupertate omnes."

"Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi."

"The question is not put how far extends His piety, but what he yearly spends; Quick, to the business; how he lives and eats; How largely gives; how splendidly he treats; How many thousand acres feed his sheep; What are his rents; what servants does he keep? The account is soon cast up; the judges rate Our credit in the court by our estate."

"Nunc patimur longae pacis mala, saevior armis luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem."

"Nemo malus felix."

"Vitam impendere vero."

"Me nemo ministro fur erit, atque ideo nulli comes exeo."

"Nemo repente fuit turpissimus."

"Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator."

"Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses."

"What's Rome to me, what business have I there? I who can neither lie, nor falsely swear? Nor praise my patron's undeserving rhymes, Nor yet comply with him, nor with his times?"

"Poena tamen praesens, cum tu deponis amictus turgidus et crudum pavonem in balnea portas. hinc subitae mortes atque intestata senectus; it nova nec tristis per cunctas fabula cenas: ducitur iratis plaudendum funus amicis."

"Probitas laudatur et alget"

"Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas."

"Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit."

"Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

"Semper ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponam Vexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?"

"Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus."

"Difficile est saturam non scribere."

"Nondum umbraticus doctor ingenia deleverat."

"Primi omnium eloquentiam perdidistis. Levibus enim atque inanibus sonis ludibria quaedam excitando, effecistis ut corpus orationis enervaretur et caderet."

"Grandis et, ut ita dicam, pudica oratio non est maculosa nec turgida, sed naturali pulchritudine exsurgit."

"Nuper ventosa istaec et enormis loquacitas Athenas ex Asia commigravit animosque iuvenum ad magna surgentes veluti pestilenti quodam sidere adflavit, semelque corrupta regula eloquentia stetit et obmutuit."

"Et ideo ego adulescentulos existimo in scholis stultissimos fieri, quia nihil ex his, quae in usu habemus."

"Nihil nimirum in his exercitationibus doctores peccant qui necesse habent cum insanientibus furere. Nam nisi dixerint quae adulescentuli probent, ut ait Cicero, ‘soli in scolis relinquentur’. Sicut ficti adulatores cum cenas divitum captant, nihil prius meditantur quam id quod putant gratissimum auditoribus fore—nec enim aliter impetrabunt quod petunt, nisi quasdam insidias auribus fecerint—sic eloquentiae magister, nisi tanquam piscator eam imposuerit hamis escam, quam scierit appetituros esse pisciculos, sine spe praedae morabitur in scopulo."

"Canis ingens, catena vinctus, in pariete erat pictus superque quadrata littera scriptum 'Cave canem."

"We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."

"Foeda est in coitu et brevis voluptas et taedet Veneris statim peractae. Non ergo ut pecudes libidinosae caeci protinus irruamus illuc (nam languescit amor peritque flamma); sed sic sic sine fine feriati et tecum iaceamus osculantes. Hic nullus labor est ruborque nullus: hoc iuvit, iuvat et diu iuvabit; hoc non deficit incipitque semper."