Martial Quotes About Books

• Algunos buenos, otros más o menos, y muchos simplemente malos: así es como se hace un libro de poemas, amigo mío.

  Marcial

  Amistad, Libro, Hecho

• Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.

  Marcial

  Libro, Escribir, Fácil

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

• You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

  Marcial

  Book, Want, Sells

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.339

• He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

  Marcial

  Libro, Escritura, Deseo

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.362

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