Occupation: Poet Birth: 48 Bc Death: 14 Bc
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If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of..
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade.
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..
Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand..
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent..
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 me….
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress..
In great things it is enough even to have willed..
I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis.
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength..
There is no wide road which leads to the Muses..
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away..
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..