Occupation: Poet Birth: 48 Bc Death: 14 Bc
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….
If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt..
Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?.
The law itself follows gold..
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 ….
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age..
Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all..
And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images..
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer..
Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes..
Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength..
To each man at his birth nature has given some fault..
Never change when love has found its home..
The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love..
Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave..
Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough..
Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much..
Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest..
Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you..
There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre..
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away..