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Quotes from Propertius

Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.
~ Propertius
And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.
~ Propertius
I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis
~ Propertius
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.
~ Propertius
Everybody in love is blind.
~ Propertius
Great is the road I climb, but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.
~ Propertius
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
~ Propertius
Let each man have the wit to go his own way.
~ Propertius
Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
~ Propertius