For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.
Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
A woman is always buying something.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
Everything changes, nothing is lost.
Love is a believing creature.
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.
The spirits run riot in youth.
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.
Art is most effective when concealed.
If the art is concealed, it succeeds.
From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.
We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.
A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
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