Martial, Epigrams 11.56.15-16

“It is easy to hate life in difficult times; he is brave who is able to live meagerly”

rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
fortite ille facit qui miser esse potest.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Martial wrote thousands of epigrams, some bitingly satirical of Roman society

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