Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Propertius
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.
The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.
Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.
Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.
Never change when love has found its home.
The law itself follows gold.
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.
And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.
I am climbing a difficult road;
but the glory gives me strength.
If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.
Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.
A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.
Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.
To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.
You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.
Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.
Let each man have the wit to go his own way.
Let's give the historians something to write about
Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.
Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.
Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.
In great things it is enough even to have willed.
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.
If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.
I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis
Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.
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