Quotes by Sextus Propertius

• Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
• Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
• Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
• Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.
• Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
• Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.
• 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.
• Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
• I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
• Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
• Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
• 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.
• No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
• Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.
• Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?