Propertius Quotes

#1. Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.

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#2. Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

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#3. 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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#4. There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

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#5. Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.

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#6. I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis

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#7. There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre.

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#8. Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.

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#9. That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

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#10. Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.

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#11. Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

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#12. The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.

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#13. Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Never change when love has found its home.

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#16. 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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#17. The law itself follows gold.

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#18. I am climbing a difficult road;
but the glory gives me strength.

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#19. Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

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#20. If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.

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#21. Let's give the historians something to write about

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#22. To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

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#23. Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

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