Propertius Quotes

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• Let's give the historians something to write about

  Propertius

  Writing, History, Giving

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• Never change when love has found its home.

  Propertius

  Love, Change, Home

  Sextus Propertius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Propertius (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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

  Propertius

  Men, Way, Wit

  Sextus Propertius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Propertius (Illustrated)”, p.76, Delphi Classics

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• Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.

  Propertius

  Beautiful

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• The law itself follows gold.

  Propertius

  Law, Gold

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

  Propertius

  Inspirational, Love Is, Giving

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• Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.

  Propertius

  Should

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

  Propertius

  Inspirational, Winning, Might

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

  Propertius

  Eye, Pioneers, Firsts

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• Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

  Propertius

  Greek, Rooms, Iliad

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• Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.

  Propertius

  Men, Enemy, Rejoice

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

  Propertius

  Men, Endeavor

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• Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

  Propertius

  Names, Age, Tongue

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

  Propertius

  Men, Faults, Birth

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• Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

  Propertius

  Speech, Speak, Absence

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

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

  Propertius

  Money, Men, Gold

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• Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

  Propertius

  Love, Madness, Blind

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• Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

  Propertius

  Spring, Birth, Iliad

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• Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

  Propertius

  Faithful, Mistress, Bent

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

  Propertius

  Strength, Climbing, Hiking

  "Elegies, IV". Book by Sextus Propertius, poem 10. 3,

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

  Propertius

  Power, Poetry, Poet

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• 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.

  Propertius

  Money, Journey, Men

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

  Propertius

  Love, Doe, Naked

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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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• Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

  Propertius

  Fighting, Sheep, Horny

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