Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MartialRead
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote suggests that recognition and honor often arrive only after a person has passed away, highlighting the irony of appreciating someone's worth posthumously.
Martial's quote reflects on the nature of glory and recognition, emphasizing that the accolades and honors that should have been bestowed upon a person often come only after they have died. This serves as a poignant reminder of how society tends to overlook the contributions of individuals until it is too late, prompting reflections on our values and how we acknowledge the living.
Themes
GloryRecognitionPosthumousHonorIrony
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used at a funeral to reflect on the legacy left by the deceased.
More from Martial
All quotes βLife is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
MartialRead
Life's not just about being alive, but being well.
MartialRead
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
MartialRead
Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
MartialRead
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
MartialRead
Similar quotes
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.
Truman CapoteRead
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.
Joan D. ChittisterRead
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
Audre LordeRead
Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
Swami VivekanandaRead
When good thing are accomplished, it does not claim (or name) them. This is Te, which is close in meaning to power or virtue. It is something within a person, and it is enhanced by following the Tao, or 'that from which nothing can deviate'.
LaoziRead
I came to believe in a power much higher than I
Johnny CashRead