Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Quotations by Marcus Valerius Martial

Other quotes and quotations :

• Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Marcus Valerius Martial
• If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing. Marcus Valerius Martial
• If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it. Marcus Valerius Martial
• Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. Marcus Valerius Martial
• Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. Marcus Valerius Martial
• Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. Marcus Valerius Martial
• To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice. Marcus Valerius Martial
• I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. Marcus Valerius Martial
• There is no living with thee, nor without thee. Marcus Valerius Martial
• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. Marcus T. Cicero