Quotes from Propertius

Trapassa anche le sponde del fato un grande amore.

quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe laus erit [even if strength fails boldness will merit praise]

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.

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

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

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.

Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?

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.

Let's give the historians something to write about

Give the historians something to write about.

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

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.

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.

Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.

Love can be put off, never abandoned.

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

Never change when love has found its home.