Propertius quotes
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“Let's give the historians something to write about”
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“I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.”
-- PropertiusSource : "Elegies, IV". Book by Sextus Propertius, poem 10. 3,
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“Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade”
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“Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.”
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“No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.”
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“Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.”
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“The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.”
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“There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.”
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“Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.”
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“If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.”
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“I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis”
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“Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.”
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“Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.”
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“Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.”
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“Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.”
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“Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.”
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“Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?”
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“Never change when love has found its home.”
-- PropertiusSource : Sextus Propertius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Propertius (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics
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“Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.”
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“Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.”
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“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.”
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“Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.”
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“Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.”
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“Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.”
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“Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.”
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“By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.”
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“In great things it is enough even to have willed.”
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“A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.”
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“Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.”
-- PropertiusSource : "Elegies, II". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.
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