To be able to enjoy one's ...

To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
 Martial

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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
 Martial
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
 Martial
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
 Martial
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
 Martial
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
 Martial