Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes..

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

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 ….

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

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

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

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?.

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

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

There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre..

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

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..

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….

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

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

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

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

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

Never change when love has found its home..

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind..

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