Propertius Quotes
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To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.
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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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Let's give the historians something to write about
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That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.
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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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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
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Love can be put off, never abandoned.
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Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
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Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.
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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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Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.
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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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Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.
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Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.
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There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.
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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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The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.
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In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
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Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.
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I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
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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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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
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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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There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.
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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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Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.
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If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.
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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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Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.
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Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.
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