Propertius Quotes - Page 2

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

  Propertius

  Love, Faith, Experts

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

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  Death, Age, Ripe

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• Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.

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  Real, Stronger, Flow

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

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  Death, Fading, Fortune

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

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  Faith, Enemy, Mistress

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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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  Hurt, Pain, Deny

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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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  Rights, Law, Gold

  "Elegies, III". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.

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• In great things it is enough even to have willed.

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  Enough, Great Things

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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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  Bed, Able, Goddess

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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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  Hands, Wings, Doe

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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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  Doe, Ghost, Ends

  "Elegies". Book by Propertius, Book 4, 1990.

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

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  Motivational, Giving, Height

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• And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.

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  Love, Doe, Able

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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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  Girl, Feet, Taught

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• Love can be put off, never abandoned.

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  Abandoned

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• No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

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  Hair, Sure Love, Rivals

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• Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

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  Lovers, Absent Mindedness, Absent

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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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  Military, Soldier, Weapons

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• There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

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  Inspirational, Muse, Wide

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

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  Girl, Taken, Men

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• 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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  Numbers, Desire, Finals

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