Martial on Borrowing

“He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.”

“I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.”

“You give me back. Phœbus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phœbus, is my own.”